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In article <8114@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Peter Merchant) writes:
>I replaced Stars with Moire, because I like Moire better.  However, I am using
>MultiFinder and I am experiencing some oddness.
>
>If I leave my Macintosh sitting with just Finder running, Moire's movement of
>the pattern is very jumpy.  (It moves, stops, moves, stops, moves, stops...)
>
>If I leave my Macintosh sitting with Finder and anything else running, it's
>okay.  For example, I've taken to keeping Alarm Clock running in the upper
>right hand corner of the screen.  When Moire finally comes up, it runs
>smoothly.
>

I looked at this MultiFinder weirdness using Moire CDEV. Here's the story...

Booted up Mac SE/20 with MultiFinder, put cursor to top-right of screen to
get Moire going. It's animation was jumpy. So, I called up the Calculator
DA, DA Handler loaded into it's own layer. Tried Moire again, and the
animation was back to it's normal swiftness. 

I thought it might have something to do with the Finder layer, so I switched
under MultiFinder back to the Finder layer (by clicking on the icon at the
right end of the menu bar). Called up Moire, and the animation was swift!

So! It seems Finder 6.0 is the culprit!

I closed the Calculator DA, closing the DA Handler layer. Called Moire. The
animation of Moire was jerky again!!!

What is Finder 6.0 doing? It looks like Finder 6.0 is hoarding the CPU.

Hey, Larry (Rosenstein), what gives?

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